Anthony Accomazzo posted a new article on the Engine Yard blog detailing how you can prepare your app for Rails 4 and Ruby 1.9. He walks through some of the syntax and behavioral differences between the 1.8 and 1.9 branches, and lets you know what to look out for to prepare your app.

Matt Aimonetti recently published an article on his "Merbist" blog where he took a deeper dive into ActiveRecord's object initialization process. He shows you why and where it might be perceived as slow.

Last week Atwam posted an article insisting that spell checking should be part of your view tests. If you have a lot of content in your views, and might be adding a bunch overtime, he shows how to use a gem called merimee which will give you some RSpec matchers to make this work.

Today at Code School we're releasing our newest course to the public, Rails Testing for Zombies. You can now play the first level for free, and if you like it .. grab it for $55 or just enroll in Code School and get it for free.